Threnodites
An offshoot cosmere culture Aux recognises by Beacon's naming conventions — Elegy, Divinity, Zeal, Confidence, Compassion, and the longer Adonalsium-style sentence-names — and by their cloth-and-coat aesthetic. On their homeworld, the dead are said to persist under the right conditions as shades; Aux suggests this branch must have split off from the main population at some point before that catastrophe took hold. STD:TSM:Ch 7
Known facts
- touch-draws-investitureHave a heritable knack for moving Investiture by skin contact — a casual touch slowly draws or gives a sliver of soul (felt as heat). It is normally an accident, or an intimacy formalised by prayer; in lovers, they pass heat back and forth. The bracers brute-force the same effect.STD:TSM:Ch 13
- official-exodus-was-for-infightingBy the Chorus's official version, the exodus from the homeworld was not driven by the Evil but by the infighting and hatred that had broken out among the people — strife the Chorus judged more pernicious than the Evil itself. Rebeke's ancestors followed the preaching of the first Lodestar, a servant of Adonalsium, to this world by choice.STD:TSM:Ch 15
- touch-thanks-is-vulnerabilityAmong Beacon's people, touching palms to invite another to draw heat is a deliberate act of thanks — a display of vulnerability and willingness to trust. Contemplation offers it to Nomad for saving her life.STD:TSM:Ch 20
- beacon-faith-not-outcome-boundPressed by Zellion on why she still prays after the Shattering, Contemplation answers for Beacon: their faith is not in any particular outcome but in the conviction that the unfolding has a hand behind it. The Beaconites know perfectly well that Adonalsium is dead, that the Shattering happened, that there are Shards now; they simply refuse to treat that as the end of the conversation.STD:TSM:Ch 47
Backreferences
- factLodestar
- factthe Chorus
- factTorment
- factGlowing Eyes
- factthis world
- factSigzil
- factthe Evil
- factthe Chorus
- factthe Chorus
- factShade
- factSolemnity Divine
- factNight Brigade
- factNight Brigade
- summarySTD:TSM:Ch 34
- factLodestar